Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape
Join the Villa Albertine for an online event on June 11 at 3PM! Midwest Museum Talks is a new program of online curatorial talks organized by the Villa Albertine Chicago in collaboration with the museums in the Midwest. In this second installment, join us for a virtual discussion with Jacquelyn Coutré, Pascal Beausse, and Gloria Groom.
This exceptional transatlantic conversation, hosted by Villa Albertine Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago, is grounded in the paintings currently on view in the Art Institute exhibition, Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape. The discussion will cover a range of subjects including Van Gogh’s relationship to the changing physical and social environment of 19th century France.
The discussion will be moderated by Gloria Groom, Curator and Chair of Painting and Sculpture of Europe at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Speakers
Jacquelyn N. Coutré is the Eleanor Wood Prince Associate Curator in Painting and Sculpture of Europe at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since her arrival in 2019, she has overseen the 2021 reinstallation of the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish galleries, acquired paintings by Edwaert Collier and Maria van Oosterwijck, and curated Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape, opening May 2023.
Jacquelyn received her masters and PhD in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University with a specialization in early modern Northern European painting and a dissertation on the colleague and competitor of Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Lievens
Pascal Beausse is Curator and Head of the Photographic Collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris. He is the author of essays and interviews relating in particular to the works of Maria Thereza Alves, Philippe Durand, Jimmie Durham, Cécile Hartmann, Candida Höfer, Ange Leccia, Teresa Margolles, Allan Sekula, Bruno Serralongue, Jean-Luc Vilmouth and Wang Of. He is also the 2007 winner of the Villa Kujoyama program, a collaboration by the French Institute/Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Franco-Japanese Institute of Kansai, which sponsors residency for researchers and artists in Kyoto.